FW: A.Word.A.Day--bricolage

[Dave Monroe]

bricolage (bree-ko-LAZH) noun

Something created using a mix of whatever happens to
be available.

[From French bricolage (do-it-yourself job), from
bricoler (to putter around, to do odd jobs), from
bricole (trifle), from Italian briccola.]

  "This, the last instalment of his so-called
'memoirs', is a rich and ragged bricolage of notes and
quotes."
   Our Round-up of Other Eyecatching New Books; The
Observer (London, UK); May 11, 2003.

  "Mounted in the Institute's Orozco Gallery, the
avant-garde art here incorporates neon text, motion
detectors, latex, video, site-specific installation,
found-object bricolage, photography and conceptual art
-- and only in a few cases that old-fashioned thing
called paint."
   Michael O'Sullivan; Mexican Art Shows: No Looking
Back; Washington Post; Aug 6, 1999.

This week's theme: miscellaneous words.

Pronunciation:
http://wordsmith.org/words/bricolage.wav
http://wordsmith.org/words/bricolage.ram

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